Presenting Rough Guide to Paris Cafe Music, featuring music from a wide variety of cafes in Paris.

"Pandit Ravi Shankar, a Bengali cultural catalyst if ever there was one, is the most famous Indian alive. When people say that India colonised the Western mind, much of it was of his doing, and when it came to getting people to pay heed to the wonders of Hindustani music, nobody ever surpassed Ravi Shankar - India's best-known sitar player opened the breach through which many others poured."

"From the hardship suffered by black sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta nearly a hundred years ago, the blues, a deep soulful music full of passion and rhythm, was born."

" ... The Rough Guide to the music of Romanian gypsies presents the internationally acclaimed performers and local artists that have, until now, remained undiscovered outside of Eastern Europe."